The law should "take its own course" in the hanging of Afzal Guru, the mastermind of the 2001 attack on the Indian parliament, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on Tuesday.

"Let the law take its own course. He has gone in for an appeal and his name figures at number 30, let's first talk about 29 who are in line before him," Abdullah told reporters in Nagrota, 13 km from here, after addressing a rally of ex-servicemen.u00a0